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When you think of Metal Gear Solid, ‘online multiplayer shooter’ is probably the last thing that comes to mind. But Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) also includes the latest edition of Metal Gear Online, with all the gadgets, cardboard boxes, and inherent silliness found …

Choose your soldier Gone are the no-name soldiers, the generic ghillie suits, and the standard issue fatigues. In Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s multiplayer, you no longer play as a grunt, but rather a highly skilled Specialist soldier. Each of these soldiers will have their own progression system (of …

Road rage Have you ever driven a go-kart? It feels fast, doesn’t it? Really fast. It’s exciting and fun and you love the feeling of the tyres struggling for grip on the smooth track surface, screeching as you corner. You grip the wheel so hard, and every bump in the …

Mark Millar has been talking about what we can expect from the final Wolverine standalone movie, but has warned fans not to expect it to sit perfectly within the construct of the wider X-Men universe. Why? Because according to Millar, comic-book continuity is “boring”. “Honestly, the continuity stuff is the …

The cheesecake in Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise is a wonderful thing. It is, perhaps, my favorite thing in the game, because of what it represents. All of TiP’s creativity, depth, charm, and weirdness can be summed up by that one slice of delicious dessert. But let’s back up a …

Warning: MGS5 story and ending spoilers throughout To say that Metal Gear Solid 5 (opens in new tab) feels unfinished – whether that feeling is intentionally designed (opens in new tab) or not – is an understatement. Broken into two chapters and a prologue, MGS5: The Phantom Pain tells the …

Metal Gear Online (opens in new tab), the competitive multiplayer counterpart to Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab), is going live in a matter of weeks. Beyond the obvious concerns about Konami’s servers catching fire (again), what will make it a good online game? To …

As a genre that’s as old as celluloid itself the crime flick casts a wide net. It’s not just your career gangsters and world-weary detectives who populate our selection, seductive femme fatales and even scrappy high-schoolers appear in everything from small-time heists to grand organised schemes. So what are you …

There are two schools of thought on Wildlands (opens in new tab). One says it’s a brash GTA wannabe that betrays Ghost Recon’s grounding in team-based tactical warfare. The other side argues it’s a much-needed modernisation of a flagging series; one that transplants the action into an exotic, reactive open …

Where many open-world action games are akin to sandboxes, Hitman: Blood Money is perhaps best viewed as a series of toy boxes. Each level is relatively small in scale, its parameters easily defined, but the possibilities for inventive play are numerous. The game offers several testing grounds for crazy assassination …